Yes as long as a large enough corpus exists of your writing attached to your name somehow it’s fair to say that posting on the internet in a public forum using your own stylistic choices now can no longer be anonymous. To your point though, perhaps it’s possible to confound such systems defensively as well. Though IMO destroying your tone kind of destroys how you actually communicate with people and I wouldn’t find interacting with people like that appealing.
replyTo be fair though, already this has been happening before LLM at a much more limited scale. Someone made a tool for HN several years ago that allows you to put your HN username in and identifies other users that write the most similarly to you. I find that interesting from the perspective of being able to interact with and discover people who think the same. It could be an interesting discovery feature of a well managed social network. Sadly probably there will be much more negative impacts of having this ability than positive ones.
One "solution" would be to have an AI rewrite your posts into a neutral style (I hate the idea of this though...)
replyThe traditional thing to do would be to publish your writing in a language you don't speak as a native. That will really quash your individual style.
replyProbably not worth the effort.
Wouldn't that make it easier, though? Genuine question.
I once sent one of my writings for proofreading to a native speaker (I'm not), and he consistently flagged the same errors—e.g., comma placement.
I would guess that, if recurrent patterns are what give away your style, an unfamiliar language would make them even more obvious. But possibly more generic?
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replyI assume that there will be tools to refactor text to communicate the same intent but scramble the style. Using an LLM of course...
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